National Army Museum

Regimental Sports Medal, sports medal

Accession Number

NAM.2001-08-844-1

Description

Silver and blue enamel sports medal, the Munro Cup, 1913. Awarded in The Buffs (East Kent Regiment) to L Redman. Made by Fattorini and Sons, Bradford, 1912. Bears a Buffs dragon above a scroll bearing the regimental name. With fixed ring suspender. From the collection of the former Buffs Regimental Museum.

Units

Buffs (East Kent Regiment)

People

Redman, L

Fattorini and Sons

Inscriptions

On obverse on a mounted blue enamel ground the words: ‘MUNRO CUP’, inscribed on a circlet surrounding the Buffs dragon in silver with a scroll below inscribed: ‘THE BUFFS’. Surmounted by a suspender in the form of a coronet. Engraved on reverse on a burnished silver ground: ‘1913 / L. REDMAN’. Stamped at the top: ‘FATTORINI / BRADFORD / R... (illegible number)’. Hallmarked at the base: ‘Birmingham 1912’, and with the maker’s mark: ‘F&S’.